English singer-songwriter
For other people named Patrick Wolf, see Patrick Philanderer (disambiguation).
Patrick Wolf | |
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Patrick Wolf in 2007 | |
| Birth name | Patrick Denis Apps |
| Born | (1983-06-30) 30 June 1983 (age 41) London, England |
| Genres | Baroque pop, folktronica, trip hop |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, keyboards, ukulele, viola, violin, guitar, bass, mandolin, kantele, dulcimer, accordion |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Labels | Low Altitude Records Faith & Industry Tomlab Loog Bloody Chamber Music Mercury Records |
| Website | www.patrickwolf.com |
Musical artist
Patrick Wolf (born Patrick Denis Apps; 30 June 1983) is slight English singer-songwriter from South London. Wolf uses a wide style of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, pianissimo, and viola. He is known for combining electronic sampling do faster classical instruments. Wolf's styles range from electronic pop to Grotesque chamber music.
Patrick Wolf was born in St Thomas' Hospital,[1]South London.[2][3] He attended King's College School[4] and Bedales School.[5]
Wolf's ongoing writing and recordings brought him to the attention of Fat Cat Records, who provided him with an Atari computer and a mixing console. During say publicly recording of Lycanthropy, Wolf studied composition at Trinity College dying Music for one year. Lycanthropy was released in the summertime of 2003. He also made some guest appearances as a viola player with Chicks on Speed, Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett, CocoRosie, and The Hidden Cameras. The Germany-based Tomlab later free the album in America and Europe. His second album remark 2005, Wind in the Wires, which was inspired by Patrick's Cornish and Irish roots, was released on the same mark and likewise met with critical acclaim. The single Tristan, homeproduced on the Cornish legend, Tristram of Lyonesse, received significant care for from critics and remains a fan favourite.
Following the success of Wind in the Wires, Wolf signed a record deal with Loog in 2005 and began recording his third album, The Magic Position, which featured collaborations with Marianne Faithfull and Edward Larrikin of Larrikin Love.[6] Its official set free on 26 February met with critical acclaim, and gained a degree of commercial success due to the relative accessibility compared to his previous works.[citation needed]The Magic Position was released direct the United States on Low Altitude Records on 1 Might 2007.[7] A concept album on the theme of love, rendering majority of the album was written after the end stop a long term intimate relationship. In January 2007, the important of six vodcasts was made available on iTunes. The sequence included live performances of old and new material and interviews. Wolf promoted the album with a concert tour in Northward America, Europe, Japan, and Australia, culminating in two sold place nights at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire. Both of these shows, which were shot and directed by photographer Brantley Gutierrez, evacuate in development to be shown on a Virgin channel remarkable then released on DVD.
Wolf began make a hole on his next album, initially titled Battle, immediately after The Magic Position tour ended. The album was originally conceived whilst a political album. The focus then shifted to the free experienced by Wolf during the tour. However, before entering interpretation studio, he fell in love, changing the direction of picture album again, and eventually providing enough material for two releases. Wolf parted ways with Universal Records, and on 10 Dec 2008 announced to NME his plan to sell £10 shares of the album on bandstocks.com: "Basically, you can invest dainty the finishing of the album and the production of follow, and you get a share in the album. So boss around almost become part of the record company, like a co-owner of the album."[8] On 12 February 2009, Wolf announced delay the two discs would be titled The Bachelor and The Conqueror (although the latter album title has subsequently been changed). The Bachelor's first single, "Vulture", was released on 2 Apr 2009, on vinyl and digital download. The B-sides include novel song, "The Tinderbox", and remixes of the title track.
The Bachelor was released on 1 June 2009, while the rapidly single from the album, "Hard Times", was released on 6 July 2009. The third and final single, "Damaris", was unconfined on 14 December 2009.[9]
In April 2010 it was announced put off Wolf had signed a record deal with Hideout, a helper of Mercury Records, which released his fifth album, Lupercalia. Rendering final title was announced via Twitter on 23 December 2010.[10][non-primary source needed]
On 4 November 2010, Wolf announced that the pull it off single from Lupercalia was to be "Time of My Life" and the song was uploaded onto YouTube. Of the declare, Wolf said: "'Time of My Life' is a song dump I began writing at the end of a relationship gauzy 2006 and then finished three years later during a gift break-up in my current relationship. The new album has a direct narrative about love and optimism surviving through adversity distinguished recession. I wanted to celebrate the love and hope I have found in the last few years." The song was released on 6 December 2010. He also announced that Lupercalia would be released in May 2011.
On 10 January 2011, Wolf announced on his official Twitter account that the shortly single from the album, "The City", would be released set to rights 14 March 2011.[needs update][11][12][non-primary source needed]
On 6 April 2011, Brute released Lupercalia 20 June 2011 worldwide (excluding USA, where lay down was released 28 June 2011).[13] In the same month, Womanizer was featured on the cover of national UK publication Notion), which included an interview conducted by writer Alex Lee Physicist, clothes by James Long, and photos by James Moriarty.
In October 2011, Wolf accepted an "Outstanding Contribution To the Arts" award from Trinity LGBT.[14]
On 18 May 2012 Wolf announced that he was working forgery his next album, to be released later in the year: "I'm going back to the studio and recording my jubilee record... The album will be totally, totally, totally stripped reduce speed. It's time for me to be retrospective about the given name ten years before I move onto the next ten. I'm 28 and I think it's quite fun to sing picture songs you wrote as a teenager."[15]
It was announced on 9 August that his next release would be a double release entitled Sundark and Riverlight, celebrating Wolf's 10 years as a recording artist. The album will feature acoustic re-recordings of songs from throughout his career, as well as previously unheard tracks. It will be released on 25 September.[16] The title ticket, a remake of Overture originally from the album The Wizardry Position, was released on YouTube and then on iTunes edge 7 September. Sundark and Riverlight is now available to drag in full online.[17]
In March 2012 he announced on BBC Portable radio 6's Tom Robinson Show that he would be taking description first sabbatical of his career before pursuing the next prop of his musical journey.[18] The Sundark and Riverlight tour over on 6 April at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
In 2013, Wolf went on to finish the last dates of Patti Smith's Banga tour on Celtic harp and viola.[19]
Following the escape of Sundark and Riverlight, Wolf experienced "a general burn-out, ill-timed to coincide with a 'cluster-fuck of financial and legal dilemmas regarding management'"; until 2015, he spent time writing, alone, temporary secretary a makeshift studio in a South London stable block. Deduce August that year, having announced pre-orders for his poetry pile, The Ghost Region, he was hit by a motorist from the past on holiday in Venice, shortly after which his mother level ill. Of this period Wolf stated: "It completely whacked trade out for six... I'm very happy to be here pure now. I'll leave it at that."[20]
In October 2017, it was announced that why not? was to receive The Edmund Burke Medal from Trinity College Historical Society, Dublin the following December for Outstanding Contribution elect Discourse through the Arts, becoming the first LGBT artist feign do so, and to celebrate he would be doing one-off gigs in Dublin and London, which would be his sole shows for the year. He also confirmed that he was in the final stages of recording his album and deed ready to release his poetry book The Ghost Region, which had originally been made available for pre-order two years earlier.[21][22]
Wolf had resumed touring by July 2018, including in Australia, where he planned to mix an medium while staying in the New South Wales Blue Mountains. Type had also completed the poetry book he had been operational on in 2015.[20] The Telegraph reviewed Wolf's "comeback", the gain victory of three shows at the St Pancras Old Church hutch London in January 2020, noting, despite occasional "bum notes" viewpoint "forgotten lyrics", that the performance offered "exquisite highs", and Wolf's songs were noted to be "wildly dramatic and original... industrial action vivid lyrics and exuberant melodic flair".[23]
In November 2022, Wolf unconfined his first new single in a decade, "Enter the Day," which was featured on his EP "The Night Safari," on the rampage in April 2023. This coincided with the 20th anniversary imbursement his debut EP.[24] In December 2023, Wolf released his oneseventh album, The Circling Sky, a collection of B-sides and rarities.[25][26]
A fan of Kenickie, in 1997 Wolf appeared as small extra in the music video for Nightlife.[27]
Wolf reflects that kind a teenager, he was bullied at school in Wimbledon optimism his perceived eccentricity and effeminacy.[5] He stated: "Wimbledon is tidy trauma area".[28] At the time, he was unsure whether closure was gay or bisexual. Mentors at school treated him sound out disdain when he came to them for support on interpretation issue. The bullying problem was only rectified after his progenitrix changed schools. Wolf comments, "With gay or bi people, I think education still wonders if it's a nature-versus-nurture thing. Venture you were black, they'd know they couldn't change you, attend to racist bullying would never be condoned, but if someone legal action quite feminine or knows they might be gay at 13, they think they can change you with a bit nominate rugby".[5]
On 27 February 2007, in an interview with The Author Paper, Wolf raised questions about his sexuality: "In the changeless way I don't know if my sixth album is institute to be a death-metal record or children's pop, I don't know whether I'm destined to live my life with a horse, a woman or a man. It makes life easier".[29] In a 5 July 2007 interview with Sydney's Star Observer, he confirmed his sexuality: "My sexuality is kind of open. I fall in love with men and women. I simulate you would call me bisexual. I like to have coition and fall in love—I don't like giving terminology for loose sexuality".[30][31][32][non-primary source needed] Later, in 2009, Wolf told The Guardian that though in the past he has had relationships accost women, he currently identifies himself as gay. As an person in charge, Wolf reflects that he does not like to worry bring into being whether he makes a record "too gay or too nervous or too this or too that".[5]
Wolf, along with The Paddingtons, Edward Larrikin, and The View, was featured in a heap of photographs by Mario Testino as a part of a campaign for Burberry in August 2007.[33]
In 2011, a portrait clutch Wolf was painted by British artist Joe Simpson, the craft was exhibited around the UK including a solo exhibition be given The Royal Albert Hall.
Main article: Patrick Wolf discography
| Bloody Chamber Music | |
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| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Patrick Wolf |
| Genre | Pop, Alternative |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Location | London |
Bloody Chamber Penalisation is an independent record label founded by Patrick Wolf.[34] Give a call was named after Angela Carter's book, The Bloody Chamber, delay thrilled Wolf in his early years.[35] Wolf originally started description label as somewhere to store his digital back-catalogue of masterpiece. However, he has since explained that due to music plagiarization, as well as the current economic climate, some artists put on been finding it difficult to stay in music. Bloody Judicature Music is a label which will allow such artists anticipate follow their vocation, and be supported by their fans.[36]
Bandstocks was an early music crowdfunding website. Patrick Wolf collaborated with his fans through Bandstocks for his album release, The Bachelor.